What does dog-nose mean?
Dog-nose means To nose around like a dog, to sniff as if searching.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To nose around like a dog, to sniff as if searching.
While Colonel John W. Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.
They come without being called, dog-nosing the air as though they sense a hard surface upon which they can lean or dash their heads.
And now here she was, wearing upon the delicate health of her hostess ; dependent upon the surgery of a more than rural doctor, who said he had dog-nosed the case ; and reduced entirely to her imagination and the daily mail (it seemed to make everything worse that it was brought five miles by a stage-coach) for any knowledge of her now sacred and absorbing interests at Fairharbor.
So I dog-nosed my case, as it were, and proved to her that it was something that couldn’t be reached by boneset tea.
He would smash his face into the doors at the end of his walks, trying to hasten their opening, and leave his little brown dog-nose smudges at his level.
Hang a bell from your doorknob at dog-nose height.
Use dog-nose when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dog-nose means To nose around like a dog, to sniff as if searching.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
While Colonel John W. Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.
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